Re: [PATCH] gpio: cdev: make sure the cdev fd is still active before emitting events

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>


On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:08:42 +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> With the final call to fput() on a file descriptor, the release action
> may be deferred and scheduled on a work queue. The reference count of
> that descriptor is still zero and it must not be used. It's possible
> that a GPIO change, we want to notify the user-space about, happens
> AFTER the reference count on the file descriptor associated with the
> character device went down to zero but BEFORE the .release() callback
> was called from the workqueue and so BEFORE we unregistered from the
> notifier.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] gpio: cdev: make sure the cdev fd is still active before emitting events
      https://git.kernel.org/brgl/linux/c/d4cd0902c156b2ca60fdda8cd8b5bcb4b0e9ed64

Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>